Marina di Pisa is a fraction of the Italian municipality of Pisa, in Tuscany.
It rises 2 meters above sea level. south of the mouth of the Arno river, on the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Today's inhabitants usually call it simply "Marina", while up to the last century the older ones continued to use the term "Boccadarno".
In addition to the waterfront, the area at the mouth of the river called "Bocca d'Arno" is particularly famous: dotted with characteristic fishing scales, dialectally called "retoni", it is very pleasant from a landscape point of view, and loved by the inhabitants of the Mariners and tourists.
Marina di Pisa è una frazione del comune italiano di Pisa, in Toscana.
Sorge a 2 m s.l.m. a sud della foce del fiume Arno, sul Mar Tirreno.
Gli abitanti odierni sono soliti chiamarla semplicemente "Marina", mentre fino al secolo scorso i più vecchi continuavano ad usare il termine "Boccadarno".
Oltre al lungomare, particolarmente rinomata è l'area alla foce del fiume detta "Bocca d'Arno": costellata di caratteristiche bilance per la pesca, denominate dialettalmente "retoni", è paesaggisticamente molto gradevole, ed amata dai marinesi e dai turisti.
In Marina there are a number of buildings, especially villas and cottages, in good or fair state of conservation, dating back to the end of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century. These are houses of a certain architectural interest, usually built by wealthy Florentine families, which oscillate stylistically between historicist eclecticism and timid hints of Liberty.
Among these, Villa Bondi, in Piazza Baleari, belonging to the "Historic Houses of Italy", was built in 1909 by the Florentine Angelo Bondi, owner of the "Manifattura di Signa", producer of terracotta and decorations of which the building is all today partially adorned. Eclectic are instead the Villa Galli Dunn, from 1905 in Louis XIV style, the neo-Gothic Villa Albites and the Palazzo Carovigno, in Piazza Gorgona, complete with a crenellated tower.
Marina of Pisa
Address: Via Camillo Guidi, 2/A
Phone: 05036307
Site:
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Linda Paolini